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Recent Examples of semirural
An evacuation order also was issued for residents of the Wilton area in semirural southeastern Sacramento County.
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Arkansas Online, 15 Jan. 2023
In the wake of apparent ruin, the family relocated from a town house in Harlem, with good furniture and servants, and a summer home on the beach, to the wilds of semirural Brooklyn.
—Willard Spiegelman, WSJ, 10 Nov. 2022
Limón is committed to giving agency to her semirural home.
—Edna Bonhomme, The Atlantic, 1 Nov. 2022
And yet those Americans, along with their neighbors in semirural suburban communities, play an outsize role in American electoral politics.
—Matt Ford, The New Republic, 13 June 2022
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Arkansas Online, 15 Jan. 2023
In the wake of apparent ruin, the family relocated from a town house in Harlem, with good furniture and servants, and a summer home on the beach, to the wilds of semirural Brooklyn.
—Willard Spiegelman, WSJ, 10 Nov. 2022
Limón is committed to giving agency to her semirural home.
—Edna Bonhomme, The Atlantic, 1 Nov. 2022
And yet those Americans, along with their neighbors in semirural suburban communities, play an outsize role in American electoral politics.
—Matt Ford, The New Republic, 13 June 2022
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for semirural
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Fish caught near urban areas contained nearly three times more PFOS and overall PFAS than those caught in nonurban locations, the study found.—
Sandee LaMotte,
CNN,
17 Jan. 2023
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But so did 55 percent of the nonurban coyote feces.—
Bethany Brookshire,
New York Times,
3 Oct. 2022
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In the late 19th century, in the wake of the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, Japanese immigrants began arriving in California in search of opportunity, enticed by the promise of employment with mining companies, agricultural producers, and railroads.—
Equal Justice Initiative,
USA Today,
6 Nov. 2025
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Apulia has a mild climate, which creates the perfect environment to grow a great diversity of agricultural crops, and this project contributes to the reintroduction in the region of a long tradition of cotton farming, which dates back to the Middle Ages.—
Luisa Zargani,
Footwear News,
5 Nov. 2025
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For the most part, these blueprints have been geared at spurring growth and unity as the nation transformed from a rural, agrarian economy to an urbanized, developed powerhouse.—
Shaoyu Yuan,
The Conversation,
5 Nov. 2025
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The design-forward abode, which makes use of familiar agrarian shapes, is currently configured as a four-bedroom, six-bath home.—
Tori Latham,
Robb Report,
17 Oct. 2025
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“Semirural.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/semirural. Accessed 11 Nov. 2025.
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